andycadley.bsky.social
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I'm almost impressed that someone is bothered enough to produce fake Bullseye merch
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The Amstrad version was more like the one on the Spectrum version of JSW II, the same but with 7 pages of colour sheets. Plenty of people meticulously copied it by hand though, whilst others just cracked the loader to accept any code.
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I think I'm looking forward to this more than anyone would ever look forward to playing the game.
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The real tragedy is that he's so easily bribed, so cheaply. Like he just has no concept of the value such a bribe ought to command. The US ought never have to buy another plane ever again, even if everyone flew daily in their own jet, for the amount he'll happily give away ...
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Is it possible you aren't waiting long enough between signalling latch and then clocking inputs?
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Well the Amiga was basically a framebuffer and some accelerated drawing (it had sprites but they were kind of weird) and then an endless set of strange rules around which features worked at the same time.
Nowhere near as easy to program for as the consoles, whose limits were clear and consistent.
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Loved this game back in 1982 although it would soon be surpassed by Manic Miner and Horace and the Spiders.
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It's amazing this never seems to get mentioned in the annals of such great games as Spectrum Sqij or Count Duckula 2. Truly it deserves a place at the very bottom of the barrel.
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That would be living the dream
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I think Thro' The Wall probably counts as the first Spectrum game, since it shipped on the Horizons tape with the computer. But Spectral Invaders probably has a solid claim to the first commercially released Spectrum game.
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Next year is 1984. Next year is always 1984. Yours, The Ministry of Truth.
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Lol. I almost always pick the female character given the choice. Jill Valentine, Kassandra in AC: Odyssey in addition to all the ones you mentioned already. If I've got to stare at someone for 60+ hours while they grunt and groan their way around platforms, I'd prefer it wasn't a man tbh.
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I'll check my notes...games officially became art with... Treasure Island Dizzy. Well that clears it up. Another victory for the egg.
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Post your favourite Doctor Who (wrong answers only).
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I'd say it's the Amiga version. Wasn't Double Dragon also rumoured to be in the works for the GX4000 too? Never been any sign it actually came out though.
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I choose to believe there is an A-list celebrity who had an awful bit part and has sued to prevent them ever showing it to anyone. That or it's a YewTree thing.
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I suppose it's possible it was something like a faulty heater leaking carbon monoxide, which they all breathed in while sleeping. Is certainly an odd story though.
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Yeah, thankfully it was a few years back before energy costs went nuts. So at the time my biggest annoyance was having to wait an extra hour for dinner. These days it'd be a much more costly mistake.
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It's about 99% likely the hard drive is already dead and any data on it unrecoverable. If not, that magnetic belt will pretty much ensure it's doomed. 🤦♂️
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I once did similar with jacket potatoes. Except I was "cooking" them in an oven. And it was over an hour before I'd realised...
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Ten years ago was about 1993 right? And then everything went downhill when they started making things 3D. And kids these days are too noisy. I remember when this was all fields you know....
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The use of sound (and silence) during that scene is absolutely awesome
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Starring Liz Hurley and Kate Burley?
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The biggest problem with modern game development is the lack of egg protagonists.
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I think that's one of the reasons I've just never really got on with Mega Man. Like they just couldn't be bothered with collision detection....
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Pick a Resident Evil. Remake it. Job done. Not sure it needs AI...
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A fitting tribute, though it will always be the absolutely off the rails stuff in YS that I loved him for. The insane reviews, the weird comments and edits to every tiny bit of text (even just the boilerplate bits that nobody read), the bonkers nonsense in the "missing cassette" space. Legend.
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Sure, then the next time you launch the app it complains and makes you assign permissions again. And the user does, because they just want to use the app. It's the classic "Dancing Bunnies" problem.
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1..10 | Measure-Object -Sum
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Because nobody understands them and most people never will. You can count the number of people that actually bother to tweak (or even read) the permissions an app needs. To the average person it's just a list of incomprehensible nonsense and they've no idea what can be denied.
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I used to love all that. It meant you had to read literally ever bit of text in the magazine, even the stuff you'd normally gloss over. The world is a sadder place without him, for sure.
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The past was alterable. The past never had been altered. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia.
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We jumped on to Vista almost immediately. As a uni computer science department we badly needed a 64-bit OS and it was much better than XP-x64. We also finally forced the faculty members who didn't want new tools that it was time to bin off the 16-bit app they loved, which h was icing on the cake.
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No you couldn't. You could do that in Windows 95/98, but not XP which was based on NT and had an actual security model. The desktop wasn't even loaded until you had authenticated.
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Sounds like you had a great time regardless. Braver than me, still can't bring myself to get into a pool.
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Is that not Glenn Frey? Absolute tune though nonetheless.
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What I remember most of early Aqua was the horrible pinstripes and the annoying lack of borders on windows.
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It's somewhat hilarious that big corporations have been the ones pushing for copyright to be extended far beyond what was originally envisioned and finally we now see big corporations being the ones who suffer from the fact everything has been kept out of the public domain.
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I don't think people really grasped the value of software compatibility back then. They were too used to new, incompatible, machines being released and software just showing up. The value of user's investment wasn't really on their radar. Bill Gates, as a software guy, saw it differently.
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17% slower isn't even always true. There are plenty of C64 games alone that end up running slower on NTSC because they took full advantage of the extra frame time available on PAL and thus consequently run at 30FPS rather than 50FPS.
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I dunno. He wears those boxing gloves for some reason.
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A million times yes. It's the most frustrating thing.
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What about Girl from Ant Attack? A far more compelling character than Boy, I'm sure we'd all agree.
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Yup, clearly the talk of a man entirely in control of his faculties who should definitely be running one of the most powerful nations on Earth. 🤦♂️
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What I used to test my 5.1 surround setup.
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I assume you mean Egghead and not Dizzy, whom nobody would ever criticise, right? Right?
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The Metroid manual similarly describes Samus using male pronouns, despite the game's ending famously revealing otherwise.